Ancient population · Bronze Age

Spain (Late Bronze Age)

Name: Spain (Late Bronze Age) (Spain_LBA)
Creator: Genoplot

Spain_LBA

Spain (Late Bronze Age) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Spain_LBA), with 3 samples from Spain, dated to c. 1150–880 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Spain (Late Iron Age), Spain (Bronze Age) and Spain (Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Basque Navarre North, Basque Soule and Basque Spanish.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include H1j, H3an and J1c.

Period: Bronze Age
Date: c. 1150–880 BCE
Country: Spain
Sampled near: El Espinoso cave 42.03, -2.36
Sites: El Espinoso cave
El Sotillo
Túmulo Mortorum
Samples: 3
Published in: PattersonReichNature2021
OlaldeReichScience2019
Catalogue: Spain_LBA

Nearest populations

Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Spain (Late Iron Age)`Spain_LIA`	1.75
2	Spain (Bronze Age)`Spain_BA`	2.33
3	Spain (Iron Age)`Spain_IA`	2.33
4	Menorca new (Late Bronze Age, Spain)`Spain_Menorca_LBA_new`	2.53
5	Iberia Menorca (Late Bronze Age)`Iberia_Menorca_LBA`	2.60
6	Spain (Middle Bronze Age)`Spain_MBA`	2.67
7	Aritgues (Late Bronze Age, Spain)`Spain_Aritgues_LBA`	2.72
8	Tartessian (Early Iron Age, Spain)`Spain_EIA_Tartessian`	2.78
9	Spain (Early Bronze Age)`Spain_EBA`	2.84
10	Pian Sultano (Bronze Age, Italy)`Italy_PianSultano_BA`	2.88

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Basque Navarre North`Basque_Navarre_North`	2.37
2	Basque Soule`Basque_Soule`	2.38
3	Basque Spanish`Basque_Spanish`	2.42
4	Basque Navarre Center`Basque_Navarre_Center`	2.50
5	Basque Lower Navarre`Basque_Lower_Navarre`	2.66
6	Basque Gipuzkoa Southwest`Basque_Gipuzkoa_Southwest`	2.66
7	French South`French_South`	2.68
8	Basque Roncal`Basque_Roncal`	2.69
9	Basque Baztan`Basque_Baztan`	2.70
10	Basque Gipuzkoa`Basque_Gipuzkoa`	2.72

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151
R1b1a1b1a1a2a R-Y66314

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 3

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I20740`	M	1300-1000 BCE	El Espinoso cave	R1b1a1b1a1a2a R-Y66314	H1j
`I2469_enhanced`	F	971-813 calBCE	El Sotillo		H3an
`I8570`	M	1300-1000 BCE	Túmulo Mortorum	R1b1a1b1a1a R-L151	J1c3